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3 unusual facts about Anglia


Anglo

The word is derived from Anglia, the Latin name for England, and still the modern name of its eastern region.

Southend Manor F.C.

In 1996–97 the club reached the last 32 of the FA Vase and in May of the same year reached the final of the Anglia TV 5-a-side Tournament held at Norwich.

Tracy Hyde

After Melody, Tracy appeared in a few TV appearances in the UK Trial (BBC, 1971), ITV Playhouse: The Greeks And Their Gifts (Anglia, 1972) and Love Story: Home For The Holidays (Associated Television, 1973).


Andrew Ray

Despite a rocky period in his twenties, Ray subsequently appeared in numerous film, theatre and television roles over the years, including as nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs for Anglia Television and as King George VI in Crown Matrimonial on stage and television.

Anglia Railways

Anglia hired a Class 47 from Cotswold Rail from June 2002 as a rescue locomotive and to haul Mark 2 sets on Summer Saturday services to Great Yarmouth.

Anstead

Nick Anstead, academic, currently a Politics lecturer at the University of East Anglia

Battle of Tempsford

The burh was stormed and a Danish king, probably that of East Anglia, was killed, along with the Jarls Toglos and Manna and many of their followers, while the rest were captured.

Bytham River

A concentration of Lower Palaeolithic occupation sites dating to before the Anglian glaciation is known along the river's route including Waverley Wood near Coventry and High Lodge, West Dereham, Feltwell, Brandon, Hengrave, Lakenheath and Warren Hill in East Anglia.

Driving Brake Standard Open

ex Riviera/Anglia MK2 driving trailer 9712 was sold to Northern Ireland Railways for use on the ex Gatwick set to convert it to push-pull operation using 111 class locomotives.

Eni of East Anglia

Hereswitha, Ealdwulf's mother, had already left East Anglia for a monastic life in Gaul by 647 (Bede, History, iv.23)and so Æthelric was probably dead by then.

Erchinoald

One notable manner in which he both exerted influence and aided the mission was his involvement in and support of convents within his sphere of influence in Nuestria (for example Faremoutiers) into which some of the princesses of Kent, such as Eorcongota and East Anglia such as Aethelburg and Saethryth, in most cases his relations, retired and were made abbess.

Georgie Bingham

She worked for ITV Anglia from 2001 to 2004 where she anchored news, sports and local football league highlights show 'Over The Bar' with Kevin Piper.

Gerry Harrison

Anglia's staple football programme Match of the Week chronicled a superb spell for Ipswich Town under the guidance of Bobby Robson, as well as the fortunes of Norwich City, Luton Town, Cambridge United, Peterborough United, Colchester United, Southend United and Northampton Town.

Gruffydd ap Llywelyn

Gruffydd now allied himself with Ælfgār, son of Earl Leofric of Mercia, who had been deprived of his earldom of East Anglia by Harold Godwinson and his brothers.

Harold Mackintosh, 1st Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax

His portrait, by the famous Scottish portrait artist Cowan Dobson is held at the University of East Anglia at Norwich.

Holkham

In 654 the Christian king of East Anglia, Anna of East Anglia, was killed in battle against the last pagan king of Mercia.

Hoxne Priory

It was founded as a religious house around the year 950, with a chapel at the supposed site of the martyrdom of Saint Edmund, king of East Anglia.

Huntingdon Racecourse

Part of The Jockey Club, Huntingdon Racecourse is an intimate National Hunt racing venue with an atmosphere all of its own, it was voted Best Small Racecourse in the South Midlands and East Anglia by the Racegoers Club.

Jonathan Wills

In late 2007, his contract with ITN ended and he joined ITV Anglia to present the East edition of their regional news programme Anglia Tonight.

London Graduate School

New London Graduate School, a consortium of five partner universities (Anglia Ruskin University, Greenwich University, The University of East London, Middlesex University, and London South Bank University) in London, England, United Kingdom

National Grid plc

National Grid Gas plc (formerly Transco) owns and operates the gas transmission network (from terminals to distributors), known as the National Transmission System (NTS), and four distribution networks (from national network to customers): North West of England, East of England (which is split into two areas – East Anglia & East Midlands), West Midlands and London; the distribution networks were former regional divisions of British Gas.

Omnis Studio

1979: Paul Wright and Geoff Smith founded Blyth Computers Ltd (later renamed Blyth Software Ltd, then Omnis Software) in Wenhaston, Suffolk, in the UK, which became the first Apple dealership in East Anglia.

Penny

But the sceat fabric survived in East Anglia under Beonna and until the mid 9th century in Northumbria, while the new-style coinages were not struck not only by Offa, but also by the kings of East Anglia, Kent, and Wessex, by two archbishops of Canterbury, and even in the name of Offa's queen, Cynethryth.

Peter Fisher

Peter Fisher (translator) (born 1934), British, professor emeritus from Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, known for translating Gesta Danorum

Robert of Winchester

He was author of De actibus Willelmi et Henrici episcoporum Wintoniæ, printed in Henry Wharton's Anglia Sacra, biographies of William Giffard and Henry of Blois.

St Edmund, King and Martyr

:For the 9th-century King of East Anglia, Martyr and Saint, see Edmund the Martyr.

Stratford St. Mary

Stratford St. Mary is a village hosting a small handful of business like The Bricklayer's Pub, The Swan Inn, Anchor Inn, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust, Carefore Homes, The Access Group, Formula One Autocentres Ltd, Naycol Scrap Metal Ltd, SITA UK, East Anglia Services, Hall Farm, The Anchor Inn and ABC Preschool.

Theodor Reuss

Westcott provided Reuss with a charter dated July 26, 1901 for the Swedenborgian Rite of Masonry and a letter of authorization dated February 24, 1902 to found a High Council in Germania of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia.

Thomas Cockcroft

Later in 1944 he helped defend London again during the Flying bomb offensive, Operation Diver; this time from East Anglia, which became know locally as 'Bomb Alley'.

Underground Zerø

They performed at the large open air concert Anglia for Africa in Norwich in 1985, which also featured Hawkwind, Magnum, Amazulu, Eek-A-Mouse and Dean Friedman.

University Centre Peterborough

All courses offered by the university centre are validated by Anglia Ruskin University and include HNCs, HNDs and BA honours degrees.

University of East Anglia Boat Club

The University of East Anglia Boat Club (UEABC) is the rowing club of the University of East Anglia in the UK.

Wehha of East Anglia

According to R. Rainbird Clarke, migrants from northern Jutland "speedily dominated" the Sandlings, an area of southeast Suffolk, and then, by around 550, "lost no time in conquering the whole of East Anglia".

West Anglia Main Line

This traffic joined the West Anglia Main Line north of Cambridge at Chesterton Junction and was generally routed for the large marshalling yards at Temple Mills.


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